Aimee Parkison's fiction has won numerous awards and fellowships, including a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two, the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review, the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, and an American Antiquarian Society Creative Artists Fellowship. ​

​﻿﻿Aimee Parkisonis the author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, winner of the Fiction Collective Two Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, published in 2017 by FC2/University of Alabama Press.

​Her other works include Woman with Dark Horses (Starcherone 2004), The Innocent Party, (BOA Editions, Ltd., American Reader Series 2012), and The Petals of YourEyes (Starcherone/Dzanc 2014).

​Parkison has taught creative writing at a number of universities, including Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she was the coordinator of the creative writing program, and Oklahoma State University, where she is an Associate Professor of Fiction Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program. Parkison has taught as a visiting faculty member at the British Council's International Creative Writing Summer School in Athens, Greece, and as a fiction faculty member at Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.